Beasts of the Southern Wild

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Movie
German title Beasts of the Southern Wild
Original title Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild (title) .jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Benh Zeitlin
script Lucy Alibar ,
Benh Zeitlin
production Michael Gottwald ,
Dan Janvey ,
Josh Penn
music Dan Romer ,
Benh Zeitlin
camera Ben Richardson
cut Crockett Doob ,
Affonso Gonçalves
occupation
  • Quvenzhané Wallis : Hushpuppy Doucet
  • Dwight Henry : Wink Doucet
  • Levy Easterly: Jean Battiste
  • Lowell Landes: Walrus
  • Pamela Harper: Little Jo
  • Gina Montana: Miss Bathsheba
  • Amber Henry: LZA
  • Jonshel Alexander: Joy Strong
  • Joseph Brown: Winston
  • Henry D. Coleman: Peter T
  • Kaliana Brower: T-Lou
synchronization

Beasts of the Southern Wild ( English for "Beasts of the Southern Wilderness") is the feature film debut of the US American director and screenwriter Benh Zeitlin from 2012 . The Fantasy -Drama that on a play by Lucy Alibar based, adapted Zeitlin together with the author for the cinema. The focus of the plot is a girl named " Hushpuppy " (played by Quvenzhané Wallis ), who grows up with her seriously ill father (Dwight Henry) in the remote swampland of Louisiana . Her home is devastated by a severe storm, while the imaginative and nature-loving girl suspects the imminent arrival of monsters frozen from prehistoric times, which are released from the melting polar caps.

The production, which relies on amateur actors and costs around 1.3 million US dollars , premiered on January 20, 2012 as part of the competition of the US Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the main prize of the festival. In Germany, Beasts of the Southern Wild opened in cinemas on December 20, 2012.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

action

The six-year-old Hushpuppy lives with her father in the cut-off swamp areas of Louisiana, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico . The girl has never left this place, called the “bathtub” by the locals. The world behind the nearby dams and refineries , where people supposedly only go on vacation once a year and eat fish wrapped in plastic, she only knows from adult stories. Their father, Wink Doucet, provides a modest livelihood for both of them as a fisherman and with a little farming. Hushpuppy's mother, who Wink once prepared fresh crocodile, "swam away" according to his stories. In her imagination, the child, who is turned towards nature, has conversations with her mother and suspects that she is in a beacon far out from the coast. When Hushpuppy is taught by Miss Bathsheba about the legend of the extinct aurochs and the impending climate catastrophe , in her imagination she sees the animals rise from the melting Arctic ice and march to "Bathtub", dragging a trail of devastation after them.

Hushpuppy's regular life begins to change when one day her father doesn't pick her up from school as usual. It is only hours later that Wink returns home wearing only a hospital gown and, to the disappointment of Hushpuppys, wants to be left alone. Wink suffers from a serious heart disease and soon threatens to die, which he tries to hide from his daughter. The disappointed Hushpuppy then tries to cook lunch for herself and the animals on her own, whereupon the caravan in the trees accidentally burns out and only with a lot of luck she escapes the fire unharmed. When a heavy storm approaches soon afterwards, numerous residents leave "Bathtub". However, Hushpuppy and her father stay. Both survive the heavy night storm, but the marshland is flooded meters high. In a motorboat assembled from auto parts, father and daughter go in search of survivors and join the drunken bar owner Winston, Miss Bathsheba and others who want to survive on a roof that has been converted into a large houseboat for two weeks until the water level has dropped again. When this does not happen, Wink, Hushpuppy and the other men unceremoniously blow up one of the dams with the help of an explosive charge hidden in an animal carcass.

Wink, Hushpuppy and the others return to the now drained bathtub, where the water has caused serious damage. Soon the residents are being transferred to a reception camp against their will. Wink, whose health continues to deteriorate, is receiving medical treatment there. During an attempt to escape, he unsuccessfully puts Hushpuppy on a bus to the north and has to admit the serious illness to his daughter, which she had already suspected. Wink, Hushpuppy, and the others then return to Bathtub. In search of her mother, Hushpuppy tries to swim with other children to the distant beacon. However, the group is picked up by a fishing boat that takes them to a floating night club. The women employed there lovingly take care of the girls and Hushpuppy makes the acquaintance of a waitress who could be her mother. She uses the same idioms as Wink and prepares a crocodile meal for the girl.

Hushpuppy returns home with the rest of the girls. When they arrive shortly before their destination, they are overtaken by four huge aurochs. While Hushpuppy's companions run away out of fear, she bravely confronts the huge animals, which then begin to kneel in front of the girl. However, Hushpuppy sends the animals away because she has to take care of "her people". She rushes to her father's bedside, who had previously observed the scene, and gives him some of the crocodile meat that he has brought to eat, which he likes. Shortly afterwards, Hushpuppy's father dies, and his body is laid out on a boat and then cremated as he wishes. According to tradition, the residents of Bathtub celebrate the death of Wink instead of mourning.

synchronization

actor role Voice actor
Quvenzhané Valais Hushpuppy Enola Fladée
Dwight Henry Wink Thomas Darchinger
Lowell Landes Walrus Erich Ludwig
Pamela Harper Little Jo Angelika Bender
Levy Easterly Jean Battiste Matthias Klie
Gina Montana Miss Bathsheba Kathi Gaube
Henry D. Coleman Peter T. Michael Rüth
Joseph Brown Winston Gerhard Jilka
Jovan Hathaway Marietta Stephanie waiter
Amber Henry LZA Valeria Ceraolo
Kaliana Brower T-Lou Felicitas Bauer
Jonshel Alexander Joy Strong Sonja Putzke
Jimmy Lee Moore Sgt. Major Hartmut Neugebauer

criticism

The American film critic Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ) counted Beasts of the Southern Wild after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival among the best productions to have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival in the last two decades. It is a “magical, realistic fable” and a “hero's journey to a wonderfully mythologized part of southern Louisiana […]”. The literary scholar bell hooks criticized the film for its problematic and uncritical portrayal of the role of skin color and masculinity . In the film she sees a "pornography of violence" that is masked by a romanticizing idea of ​​the unity of man and nature.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Beasts of the Southern Wild . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 546 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Beasts of the Southern Wild . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Denby, David: Going South . In: The New Yorker 88 (July 23, 2012), No. 21, p. 80.
  4. ^ German synchronous index , accessed on March 30, 2014
  5. ↑ Dargis, Manohla : At a Subtler Sundance, One Film Sparkles: Amazing Child, Typical Grown-Ups . In: The New York Times , Jan. 28, 2012, Section C, p. 1.
  6. ↑ bell hooks: No Love in the Wild. September 2, 2009, accessed on September 23, 2018 .